Myra played the saxophone to one side, while Joe and Keaton performed center stage. Maltin, Leonard, The Great Movie Comedians, Bell Publishing, 1978, Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow, Chap. In 1920, The Saphead was released, in which Keaton had his first starring role in a full-length feature. Keaton returned to film by the 1950s. Marriage: xxxx Ohio, USA: Record information. In one sequence, Keaton even danced with himself. He ran to meet misfortune and never failed to make connections. He was handed a script titled Sidewalks of New York (1932), in which he played a millionaire becoming involved with a slum-neighborhood girl and a gang of rowdy kids. Neibaur, James L. and Terri Niemi (2013). 33. The International Buster Keaton Society was founded on October 4, 1992: Keaton's birthday. Early Days in Vaudeville - 1895-1917. Beginning in his early twenties, he enjoyed a decade-long stretch as the director, star, stuntman, editor, and all-around mastermind of some of the greatest silent comedies . [74][75] Critic and film historian Imogen Sara Smith stated about Keaton's style: "the coolness and subtlety of his style [is] very cinematic in terms of recognising that the camera can pick up very, very small effects".[74]. After Robert's birth, the marriage began to suffer. In The Playhouse (1921), he parodied his contemporary Thomas H. Ince, Hart's producer, who indulged in over-crediting himself in his film productions. TCM voice-over, October 2011, "Buster Keaton Month". Buster Keaton is American by birth. A two-day pass to the festival will cost $40, or a one-day pass for $25. Best known for his silent film work, Keaton was ranked as the 21st-greatest male star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute in 1999. But the laughter died Tuesday when, Piqua, Woodson County, Kansas, United States, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, Woodland Hills, California, United States, Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, Descendants of William Peck(1601-1694) Elizabeth(Davis)Peck (1608-1683), "Buster", "The Great Stone Face", "Malec", Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, Legendary motion picture comic actor, writer, producer, and director, Actor. [87], With the failure of his marriage and the loss of his independence as a filmmaker, Keaton descended into alcoholism. "[44] Keaton made the film anyway, and was amazed that it became his biggest box office success. [4] In 1996, Entertainment Weekly recognized Keaton as the seventh-greatest film director, writing that "More than Chaplin, Keaton understood movies: He knew they consisted of a four-sided frame in which resided a malleable reality off which his persona could bounce. Their routine had relied on physical prowess and exact timing, and required reliable performers. The images and pieces have presentations and attendees from a #Buster Keaton Convention that is held the first week of October . The 21st Annual International Buster Keaton Convention will be held Oct 2-3, in Muskegon, MI, and The Humphrey Bogart Film Festival will be held October 21-25, in Key Largo, FL. Filmmaker Mel Brooks has credited Keaton as a major influence, saying: "I owe (Buster) a lot on two levels: One for being such a great teacher for me as a filmmaker myself, and the other just as a human being watching this gifted person doing these amazing things. Keaton managed to get his drinking under control by 1934, after a short time in Europe where he appeared in several films including Le roi des Champs-Elyses (1934). Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 - February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. [37], Keaton's last three features had been produced and released independently, under Keaton's control, and fell short of financial expectations at the box office. Jimmy assists Spencer Tracy's character, Captain C. G. Culpepper, by readying Culpepper's ultimately-unused boat for his abortive escape. He began performing with his parents as a three year old in the act 'The Three Keatons', first . [29] Keaton later said[where?] But it's even more pleasurable to get back to the presentwhere brooding, miserable, non-smiling Humphrey Bogart really shines. Born Joseph Keaton (the sixth in a line of Joseph Keatons) in Piqua, Kansas on October 1, 1895, Buster had the delightful fortune of being born in the right place at the right time. By 1935, this second marriage had ended in divorce. Buster Keaton was one of three great silent film comedians (along with Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd). [51] Keaton had prints of the features Three Ages, Sherlock Jr., Steamboat Bill, Jr., and College (missing one reel), and the shorts "The Boat" and "My Wife's Relations", which Keaton and Rohauer then transferred to Cellulose acetate film from deteriorating nitrate film stock. Keaton observed that during his silent period, such a hat cost him around two dollars (~$2733 in 2022 dollars); at the time of his interview, he said, they cost almost $13 (~$116 in 2022 dollars). "Gee whiz," said George Pardey, an unknown Midwestern actor and a Keaton family friend, adding, "He's a regular buster!" The baby's father said, "I'm going to call him by it." "[14], Keaton was born into a vaudeville family in Piqua, Kansas,[15] the small town where his mother, Myra Keaton (ne Cutler), was when she went into labor. Last year, she went to Germany for a Buster Keaton Film Festival. Then in his twenties, he had outgrown his family vaudeville act, whose violent acrobatics had relied on a size . [69] When Keaton transposed his experience in vaudeville to film, in many works he parodied melodramas. once in English, once in Spanish, and once in either French or German, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), "Deadpan but alive to the future: Buster Keaton the revolutionary", "The 50 Greatest Directors and Their 100 Best Movies", "AFI Recognizes the 50 Greatest American Screen Legends", "The General: the greatest comedy of all time? The child labor laws of which the Keaton family continually ran afoul; the very notion of institutionalized if widely varying child welfare practices; the state of the film industry in the first . So that's how he did itit hurtbut you had to care enough not to care. The innovative special effects he developed for The Playhouse made him an early leader in the field. His mother nicknamed him Jimmy. [104], Keaton's Sherlock Jr., in which he walks into the movie he is projecting, was an influence Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo, in which a character walks out of a movie and into real life. "[40], When the studio began making talking films, Keaton was enthused about the new technology and wanted to make his next film, Spite Marriage, with sound. (1933). Keaton had a short-lived second marriage with Mae Elizabeth Scriven, a nurse, hairstylist and playwright. In 1926, audiences were amazed by the daredevil antics of comedian Buster Keaton in the movie "The General . The resulting film, The Buster Keaton Story (1957) starring Donald O'Connor, was frankly terrible (Eleanor recalled attending a preview with Buster and how they "felt like crawling out on our hands and knees"), but it did give them the ability to finally . Like Arbuckle before him, Keaton began directing films that he appeared in. His third wife was a dancer named Eleanor Ruth Norris. in Woodland Hills, California, USA, This form allows you to report an error or to submit additional information about this family tree: Buster KEATON (1895), Copyright Wikipdia authors - This article is under licence CC BY-SA 3.0. [98] A 1987 documentary, Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow, directed by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, won two Emmy Awards.[99]. "She just hated the man to death," said her grandson Jim. Because of Keaton's success, and a notorious scandal involving Arbuckle, Comique Films was renamed Buster Keaton Productions. Sarah Porter , Joseph Judson, Isabeau de DAMPIERRE , John de FIENNES, Brangre de CASTILLE , Alfonse Ix de CASTILLE. The General was a Civil War romance, that featured many impressive chase scenes and one very expensive special effects shot. After her step-grandmother Eleanor died in 1998, Cox became the family's Goodwill Ambassador on behalf of her Grandpa Buster. Keaton spent $42,000 on sending a train into a burning bridge. Father of Private and James Talmadge Much more thoroughly than Chaplin, he managed a near-perfect, and highly expressive, harmony between the roles of performer and filmmaker." He then moved to feature-length films; several of them, such as Sherlock Jr. (1924), The General (1926), Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), and The Cameraman (1928), remain highly regarded. With the exception of Seeing Stars, a minor publicity film produced in 1922, Limelight was the only time in which the two would ever appear together on film. That's the way it always had been, until his mother . Free shipping. The act was mainly a comedy sketch. Three Kids. Service.[73]. Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd advised him against making the move, cautioning that he would lose his independence. The director was usually Jules White, whose emphasis on slapstick and farce made most of these films resemble White's famous Three Stooges shorts. Keaton became the new head of the company, which was owned by Joseph Schenck (who later became Keaton's brother in law). Buster William Keaton Sr. from tree Keaton Family Tree. By 1917, Joseph Keaton had developed severe problems with alcohol and the family's act was dissolved. They divorced in 1936[89] at great financial cost to Keaton. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Buster Keaton With Family Rare Candid 8x10 Photo at the best online prices at eBay! Geni requires JavaScript! Keaton's character emerged unscathed, due to a single open window. [49], Keaton accepted various character roles in both "A" and "B" features. Keaton's loss of independence as a filmmaker coincided with the coming of sound films (although he was interested in making the transition) and mounting personal problems, and his career in the early sound era was hurt as a result. Go Outside. He kept getting it mixed up. Keaton had little to say about the details of the MGM contract; he would no longer have any financial responsibility for his films, and even his salary had been pre-negotiated, without his own input. A 1905 ad for The Three Keatons read: "Maybe you think you were handled roughly as a kid watch the way they handle Buster!". Afterward, I only gradually realized what kind of family I was inheriting. Her sister, Norma Talmadge, was married to Joseph Schenck, owner of Comique Films the company that Keaton managed. He was born Joseph Frank Keaton on October 4, 1895, in Piqua, Kansas, the eldest of three children, including a younger brother and sister, born to two vaudevillians, Joseph Hallie Keaton and Myra Cutler. His film career was briefly interrupted by military service during World War I. Six of his films have been included in the National Film Registry, making him one of the most honored filmmakers on that list: One Week (1920), Cops (1922), Sherlock Jr. (1924), The General (1926), Steamboat Bill, Jr., and The Cameraman (both 1928)[97], A 1957 film biography, The Buster Keaton Story, starring Donald O'Connor as Keaton was released. [19] He was briefly institutionalized, according to the Turner Classic Movies documentary So Funny It Hurt. (Thirty years later, both Keaton and Durante had cameo roles in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, albeit not in the same scenes. The film has a largely negative reputation, with renowned film historian Kevin Brownlow calling it the worst film ever made.[50]. 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